Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I'm a slow starter.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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Management must manage!
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.
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I love Wisconsin, but it made my life better (when he went to Cup racing). I had done about everything in short tracks that you can do. It was a new challenge for me to come down here and it gave me a new look on life. It was a different battlefield that gave me a new lease on life.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.
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I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
